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WDIM

(1,662 posts)
Thu Sep 22, 2016, 01:53 PM Sep 2016

Testify! How have anti-cannabis laws impacted your life?

Its time for the oppressment of the cannabis user to end!

Its time we all raise our voice and say enough. The most dangerous thing about cannabis are the laws against it.

I would like to hear testimony from those who have been negatively impacted by these oppressive laws. We need to tell the Government and the people how these laws limit our opportunities our freedoms and our potential.

How these laws create crime on our streets and lead to police corruption intimidation and dangerous home invasions that threaten our children.

The only reason for these laws is greed. A license to steal in a corrupt justice system where the judges and DAs get fat. Destroying the life of a citizen because of a plant.

These racist and tyrannical laws against possessing a plant deny millions of honest and hardworking individuals economic opportunity. And they give economic opportunity to gangsters and thugs and mafia big shots.

They deny us the right to grow our own medicine and food. The right to self determination and the right to live a peaceful life as we see fit.

Having a plant in my back yard won't hurt you but you'd be willing to come hurt or possible kill me if I did. With a badge on your chest and a flash grenade in the crib. Masked thugs armed with automatics. Does it make you feel like a man to put down somebody whose trying to work for his family?

The laws against cannabis do the real damage please contribute. We need to let them know the damage they are doing and the lives they are destroying in their war against a plant.

The right to peacefully grow plants should never be infringed! There is nothing more sacred then the right to grow your own food and medicine.

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Testify! How have anti-cannabis laws impacted your life? (Original Post) WDIM Sep 2016 OP
Legalization doesn't mean an end to discrimation and oppression. bluedigger Sep 2016 #1
It is a start to legalize it. WDIM Oct 2016 #5
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bluedigger

(17,148 posts)
1. Legalization doesn't mean an end to discrimation and oppression.
Thu Sep 22, 2016, 02:40 PM
Sep 2016

As long as they refuse to employ us, they perpetuate a two class system meant to advantage "straight" alcohol and prescription abusers and employers at our expense.

WDIM

(1,662 posts)
5. It is a start to legalize it.
Mon Oct 10, 2016, 04:24 PM
Oct 2016

Educate and allow people self determination.

Obviously being stoned on the job is grounds for termination. But a good employee is a good employee despite what they do in their free time.

I refuse drug testing and it does limit my job possibilities but I don't want those jobs anyways. I am not company property.

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